List of orchidologists
This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.
A
- Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids
B
- James Bateman (1811–1897), a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist
- Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), a German-Dutch botanist
C
- James Boughtwood Comber (1929-2005), a British botanist
- Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy (1835-1911), a French physician and botanist
D
- Walter Davis (botanist)
- John Day (botanist) (1824–1888), an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 4000 illustrations of orchid species
- Donald Dungan Dod (1912–2008), an American missionary and orchidologist
- Calaway H. Dodson (born 1928), an American botanist, orchidologist, and taxonomist
- Robert Louis Dressler
E
- Rica Erickson (1908–2009), an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher
F
- Achille Eugène Finet (1863–1913), a French botanist best known for his study of orchids native to Japan and China
- Ernesto Foldats (1925 – 2003), a Latvian-Venezuelian botanist and orchidologist
- Noriaki Fukuyama (1912–1946), a Japanese botanist and orchidologist
G
- Leslie Andrew Garay (born 1924), an American botanist
- Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827), an amateur botanist and collector
H
- Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812-1871), a German botanist
- Abel Aken Hunter (1877-1936), an American botanist in Panama
L
- es:Charles H. Lankester (1879-1969), British born, known for his orchid work in Costa Rica
- Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
- Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898), a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids
- John Lindley
- Hugh Low
M
- Hanna Margońska (born 1968), a Polish botanist
- Theodore Luqueer Mead (1852-1936), an American naturalist, entomologist and horticulturist known for his pioneering work on the growing and cross-breeding of orchids
- Brian John Peter Molloy , New Zealand botanist
- Henry Moon (1857-1905), an English landscape and botanical painter, noted for his orchid paintings
P
- Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846-1906), a German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
- Charles Wesley Powell (1854-1927), an American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama
- George Harry Pring a British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Q
- Eduardo Quisumbíng (1895–1986), a Filipino plant biologist
R
- Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823–1889), a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century
- Benedikt Roezl (1823-1885), an Austrian traveller, gardener and botanist, probably the most famous collector of orchids of his time
- Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921), a British botanist and the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
S
- Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
- Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925), a German taxonomist, botanist and author of several works on orchids
- Alexander Skutch
- Paul Carpenter Standley an American botanist, specializing in the flora of Central America, including orchids
- Olof Swartz (1760–1818), a Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
- Dariusz Szlachetko (born 1961), a Polish botanist
T
- Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831), a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion
V
- Louis van Houtte (1810-1876), a Belgian horticulturist
W
- Józef Warszewicz (1812-1866), a Polish botanist, plant and animal collector and biologist
- Benjamin Samuel Williams (1822–1890), an English orchidologist and nurseryman in London